The Surface Transportation Board has combined its two legal offices into one and named Anika Cooper as chief counsel, the board has announced. The changes were announced Monday (Aug. 4, 2025), but ...

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking comments from shippers, carriers, and others on first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) service, which occurs when railcars are moved between a local railroad ...

Last month, Union Pacific said it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S.

The board is asking stakeholders to issue comments by June 5. The deadline to reply to comments is July 6. “Machine-readable invoicing may be one way to make the process of verifying demurrage ...

July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...

The freight railroads and their customers are gearing up for what will likely be some intense discussion over how and whether the Surface Transportation Board (STB) will modify rules related to ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and ...

The Surface Transportation Board [http://www.stb.dot.gov]of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of ...

The Biden administration is asking the Surface Transportation Board, the independent, appointed body that regulates U.S. rail, to set a precedent by forcing railways to let Amtrak restart an old ...

The Surface Transportation Board will require railroads to submit service recovery plans and provide additional data and regular progress reports on rail service, operations and employment.

The federal Surface Transportation Board has declined to issue a declaratory order requested almost three years ago by the North County Transit District that would give the local agency clear ...